Statistics on hospital services were downloaded from the Voluntary Hospitals Database (which can be accessed here). This is an online version of a database initially constructed at the University of Portsmouth as part of a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Creation of the online version was made possible by a grant from the Wellcome Trust. I am grateful to Martin Gorsky and John Mohan for permission to reproduce this material.

Most of the data for Dorset County Hospital in the Voluntary Hospitals Database comes from the 1920s to 1940s – some examples are below: